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Discsns About LGBT Rights Tajikistan: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.

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WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY TAJIKISTAN

LGBT Rights Tajikistan: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * tajikistan gay rights *

HistoryHomosexual activy Tajikistan?

TAJIKISTAN DRAWS UP REGISTER OF HUNDREDS OF GAY CIZENS 'TO PROTECT THEM OM STDS'

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Homosexual activy Tajikistan is legal. Current statSce Dec 1, 1994No protectns Do to homophobia the untry. Wispread homophobia and open police persecutn n make life dangero or out of the gay is no longer a crime Tajikistan, but police are reticent to addrs hate crim, cludg the murr of a gay man Dhanbe 2011.

It was there that I first realized that I liked men and I began to go to gay bars and parks where men met. "There's a reason Tajikistan's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny (LGBT) remas one of the most closed and secretive parts of Tajik society.

GAY LIFE TAJIKSTAN

LGBT Rights Khatlon, Tajikistan: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * tajikistan gay rights *

Homophobia is wispread thanks to "tradnal attus and the strong fluence of Islam, " says Kiromidd Gulov, director of Equal Opportuni, a lol NGO tablished 2009 to help Tajikistan's LGBT muny wh legal, medil and moral support.

"Many Tajiks believe that homosexualy is "a s and that such people should be killed or isolated, " Gulov explaed.

""Homosexualy is ntrary to nature, " said an official om the Mistry of Health, who spoke to on ndn of anonymy bee she is not thorized to speak to the prs. "Although [homosexualy] has been removed om the [ernment's] list of treatable illns, many doctors still see as a disease which n be treated wh medice.

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